19 Jun 09 Dell UltraSharp 2709W for $599 – third time in 2009 – days of deals ; check the 2709w reviews
Dell 2709W S-PVA LCD Monitor Picture
But… today, they once again have the Dell UltraSharp 2709W 27” LCD monitor supporting 1920×1200 pixel resolution, all the input connections (HDMI, DVI, and yes – displayport) as well as 5 USB connections, an S-PVA panel, and so much more.
I wrote previously about reviews of the Dell 2709W so if you use the search feature on the top to look for my previous articles and reviews of the Dell 2709W, you’ll see that it’s been $549 and $599 so far this year.
It’s at $599 today only (until 6:00 a.m. EDT Saturday morning)… as I’ve mentioned before, I have actually used this monitor for over a year. OK, not this exact one, the 2707WFP… summary ? I love it.
BTW, Dell is experimenting with lightbox display of their promos (mistake, Mike Dell) and it’s causing so many XML errors that they have a “click here if this page isn’t displaying” option. The above link should work ok.
Wait ‘til you run it with Windows 7 
Tags: Days of Deals, Deals, Dell, Dell 2709W, reviews
17 Jun 09 Confidentialité de l’adresse IP – pas vraiment. Les informations transmises aux sites que vous visitez
L’autre soir je discutai avec une amie concernant la confidentialité d’une adresse IP, et ce que quelqu’un d’autre pourrait faire s’il connait ton adresse IP.
Alors, c’est un sujet qui sera difficile à couvrir entièrement dans quelques phrases, et je viens de terminer une autre discussion avec un collègue (qui travail en sécurité informatique, ahem… cheers Benjamin.) pendant qu’on tentait de déboguer des problèmes d’indexage de recherche de SharePoint Server.
Donc, en bref, l’adresse IP est unique. L’adresse est généralement accordée à une connexion réseau par votre fournisseur d’accès réseau – ou, dans le cas d’un réseau corporatif, par votre administrateur réseau à partir de la banque d’adresses IP accordé à votre compagnie.
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Tags: adresse IP, français, IP address information, IT Security, vol d'identité
17 Jun 09 Sharepoint / MOSS licensing – do we need MOSS CALs for users with access only to WSS sites in a separate site collection
Whew, that’s one crazy long title.
OK, I’ve been dealing with licensing reps from MSFT, fellow Sharepointers in the twittersphere, and I’m still not 100% sure about this particular Sharepoint licensing scenario.
Let’s say I have a Sharepoint farm, with MOSS 2007 installed. I have 100 regional users for whom I have 100 MOSS standard CALs.
I wish to have non-CAL users access sites in a separate site collection on the same Sharepoint Server. The non-CAL users would not have access to the MOSS portal site, no My Sites, etc. They would only have access to the separate site collection.
In this latter scenario, am I still within the licensing requirements? My 100 users for whom I have CALs would have access to everything. The non-CAL users would have access only to site collections and no MOSS portal site access.
It annoys me when MSFT reps say that licensing is “simple” and “straight forward”… sorry; not. I spend 15% of my time trying to explain licensing to my C-level executives… (and I have a hard time grasping all the finer elements of MSFT licensing soup myself… after 10+ years working with MS enterprise software.)
14 Jun 09 Chitika hits 50,000 publishers – congrats! a great way to supplement your Adsense & other website revenue methods
I’ve managed website monetization strategies for quite a while now, and first started using Chitika about 3 years ago or so, when they were essentially providing widgets to online stores that would pay a commission. At the time, it was a murky fit if you already had Adsense running, since it involved an option to insert their code to deliver ads in a contextual manner (adjusting ads based on the content of your page)…
At the time they offered 2 types of ad integration for website publishers; either through a fixed keyword method (where you chose a keyword to indicate products to be placed from their pool of advertisers) and a contextual method where they would place ads based on your page content. At the time, Adsense was the biggest (perhaps only significant?) player in the contextual text ad game, so it was hard to really give up the “sure-fire” Adsense revenue to experiment with Chitika. I did try it with the specific keyword method, but their product advertiser range was quite limited – mainly electronics; and as such it didn’t work well with our non-electronics based sites.
That all changed around a year ago, and now they have a great advertising model, where their JavaScript-based ad code only appears to visitors arriving from a search engine. Basically their ad code recognizes the search string that your visitor used on the referring search engine, and then Chitika displays relevant ads based on that particular keyword. It’s not purely contextual, and therefore can be used in tandem with Google Adsense – the latter program specifically disallows for the use of concurrent contextual advertising spots.
This way, it’s only your visitors who arrive from search engines who see the Chitika ads, and you get paid per click that your visitors do on the ads. The payouts are quite decent, and it’s fairly uninstrusive for your visitor base.
Congrats to Chitika who just reached 50,000 publishers! If you own a website, I highly recommend you try out Chitika and get a few extra dollars flowing your way.
Tags: AdSense, Chitika, Monetization, ppc, Web 2.0
11 Jun 09 Kingston SNV125-S2BN/64GB 64GB SSDNow solid state drive for $126.99 at Newegg Canada
A pretty hot deal over at Newegg Canada for the Kingston SNV125-S2BN 64GB SSD drive… it shows $136.99, but if you apply the coupon code CEMCLTML39 it takes it down to CA$126.99. A good deal for a SATA II, 2.5″ notebook drive…
Your call if the benefits of an SSD drive outweigh the price difference compared to regular mechanical drives. The specs claim 100MBps sequential read with 80MBps writing speed.
That’s a pretty good deal considering the same drive is US $134.99 on Amazon.com US $134.99 on Amazon.com
Tags: bargains, Deals, Hardware, Kingston SNV125-S2BN, NewEgg Canada
